Back in August 2009 I created VH1Stars.com to have a website where fans of VH1 could go to and visit to read news outside of what they saw on VH1.com or the channel. It was similar to what Bourgy.com had been doing and VH1Access.net
My intentions were to communicate and connect with VH1 talent and fans. Simple enough. Then VH1 started changing. They began to be less involved with the reality TV shows that had made me watch the network. They distanced themselves from talent due to the murder/suicide involving Ryan Jenkins from I Love Money/Megan Wants A Millionaire. It became hard to report about VH1 Stars as they were actually dwindling and not giving a chance to shine. Shows were buried and the channel began shifting to a different type of reality show format. Involving wives of sports stars.
At this same time most of the things to report on were club appearances, I Love Money 3 & 4 rumors and nude/porn things that VH1 talent did. Most of my traffic was coming from Google for people looking for the nude stuff. This is when I realized I was doing something I did not want to do anymore.
The nude leaks, pornography and sexual exploitation that I was putting on my site was not something I could be proud of. As much as I am curious and interested in these things as any other male it is not something that I felt was right. I had a successful website that I did not want anyone to see. I had essentially worked backwards on my previous intentions and created a dark void that I did not want fans to see or interact with.
My alternative was to stop posting these things and just post about what VH1 was doing now. There were all of these wives shows on. Football Wives, Basketball Wives and Mob Wives for example. I hate those shows. As much as they say they are reality based we all know there is a bit of scripting involved. If you hate each other so much just don’t see each other. It is not like these women were confined to the same house or anything. They can just not be involved with each other and that is the end of it. But of course then there would be no show.
Then VH1 brought Ton of Cash to the network. I was excited as finally a new breed of reality stars that were successors to previous shows like I Love Money and other challenge based reality shows would be back on TV. I began posting news again. The cast was interesting and did their part. Then VH1 screwed the show and moved it around, stopped advertising it and pretty much buried the show. I then had a conversation with a cast member on Twitter privately who went into detail about promiscuous sex on the show, disease and during this time I saw the sex tape from the show. I was going to be back in that same place as it had been before and I didn’t want anything to do with it.
I am a hypocrite I know. I want to see it and I want to know the drama but I do not want to post it or be associated with it.
I have interacted with some of the coolest people on VH1 and have a lot of respect for them and hope to still talk with them on Twitter but the website is done and I have no intentions on bringing it back.
